Meeting Summary
What Happened
Ten to twelve members were present for the May 1, 2026 meeting. Council Members John Lee, Nithya Raman, and Ysabel Jurado opened Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, formally renaming the observance to reflect Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, and honored Olympic and Paralympic athletes including badminton Olympian Howard Shue, Tongan-American swimmer Nolani Day, Paralympic shooter Yun Shaogang, Paralympic sprinter Scout Bassett, and former Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park, the first South Korean-born player in Major League Baseball history.
Council Members Curren Price and Tim McOsker led a commemoration of the 34th anniversary of the 1992 Crips-Bloods gang truce, joined by original architects of the peace agreement including Daude Sherrills, Watts Gang Task Force president Donnie Joubert, and Minister Tony Muhammad. Speakers described the truce — modeled on the 1949 Egypt-Israel armistice agreement and supported by Stevie Wonder's radio station KJLH, which kept phone lines open during the 1992 unrest — as producing a 44% reduction in gang-related violence in Watts within two years and holding through the Rodney King riots without a single gang-related death attributed to the truce's participants.
Council adopted the large majority of its 20-item agenda without recorded dissent, including a technical amendment establishing a 15-mile-per-hour school zone near Canyon Elementary in Council District 11. Three Transportation Committee reports establishing oversize-vehicle parking restrictions in Council Districts 8, 15, and 2 (Items 17-19) passed together 11-1, with Council Member Ysabel Jurado voting no; no floor debate preceded the vote. Council Member Curren Price recused himself from Item 6, citing his wife's former employer's relationship with an organization named in the item.
Contested Votes
Tallies and member votes are the official record (LA City Clerk CVVS). Descriptions are drawn from the meeting transcript.
Item 17 — CF 26-0008-S7 (Adopted): A Transportation Committee report establishing oversize-vehicle parking restrictions on several street segments in Council District 8.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (1) | Ysabel Jurado |
| Absent (3) | Adrin Nazarian, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez |
Item 18 — CF 26-0008-S8 (Adopted): A Transportation Committee report establishing oversize-vehicle parking restrictions on a street segment in Council District 15.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (1) | Ysabel Jurado |
| Absent (3) | Adrin Nazarian, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez |
Item 19 — CF 26-0008-S9 (Adopted): A Transportation Committee report establishing oversize-vehicle parking restrictions on several street segments in Council District 2.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (1) | Ysabel Jurado |
| Absent (3) | Adrin Nazarian, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez |